GENOCIDE OF HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE AND CULTURE OF WESTERN ARMENIA

When making a pilgrimage in Western Armenia, a considerable part of the way to Aghtamar island is passing through the historic province of Kars and neighboring territories, the substantial parts of which, with the Ararat-Masis summit, are territories, annexed from Eastern Armenia by the unlawful treaties of Moscow (March 16) and Kars (October 16), concluded between the Bolshevik authorities and Kemalist Turkey in 1921.